What Do Gay Marriage Rulgs Mean For Church?
Contents:
- ON GAY MARRIAGE IN CHURCH, STANC VARY AMONG RELIGNS, CLERGY, MEMBERS
- 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
- WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- CHURCH THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
- BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
- WHY HAVE SO MANY CHRISTIANS AND CHURCH BEE PRO-GAY?
ON GAY MARRIAGE IN CHURCH, STANC VARY AMONG RELIGNS, CLERGY, MEMBERS
* gay marriage in churches *
Though the Supreme Court has clared the Defense of Marriage Act unnstutnal and validated California's gay marriage ban, marriage remas a plited and ntted issue among relig nomatns. (The urt lg on California's Proposn 8 effectively will allow gay marriage the state, but do not change same-sex marriage laws or bans other stat). Yet, while surveys have shown that people who are agast gay marriage most equently pot to relig views to expla their objectns, the number of nomatns that perform same-sex marriage and blsg ceremoni is growg.
3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
The Prbyterian Church (USA) officially regnized gay marriage this week. * gay marriage in churches *
In 2004, after Massachetts legalized gay marriage but before the ph for same-sex marriage legalizatn picked up steam natnally, the church voted to support state efforts to legalize civil unns. Most mosqu do not allow same-sex marriag, and a high-rankg cleric at Egypt's Al-Azhar Universy, one of Islam's most rpected schools, recently clared gay marriage to be agast the fah.
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
Wh the recent cisn to allow gay marriage natnwi, there has been nsirable ntroversy over church' rights to refe gay marriage their * gay marriage in churches *
Hduism do not have an official posn on gay marriage, though some Hd and scholars have poted to ancient relig texts as ndong homosexualy.
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
Although polici among relig groups on gay marriage differ wily, recent surveys have shown that members of many relig groups are creasgly supportive of legalizatn. PerryhomosexualyRelign and SexualyDefense of Marriage ActBefore You GoSCOTUS Decisns On Prop 8, Defense Of Marriage Act. It has weled gay people sce 1976, when s General Conventn cid that “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the Church.
Statistics suggt, however, that gays and lbians are not creasg number, if we accept the bt rearch data of Edward Lmann, who puts the number at about 5% of the populatn1. What has grown is a much greater acceptance of gays and lbians our culture, as well as the social and enomic eedom for gays and lbians to emerge om the closet that has nfed them for so many generatns.
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
The recent addn of same sex mment ceremoni the Sunday New York Tim weddg and engagement announcements and the populary of shows as "Will and Grace" and "Queer Eye…" dite a shift our culture's attu toward gays and lbians. My tent was two-fold: first to ve stunts to dialogue wh people different om themselv; send, to work to elimate, whatever small way I uld, homophobic attus on our mp and our muny.
CHURCH THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
My purpose today is not to support or fend gay and lbian marriag—ed, many gays and lbians do not want to marry—but simply suggt a theologil approach that might open up the possibily for greater Christian acceptance of, and eccliastil approval for, same sex unns.
A person is born gay and lbian and grows up this way; is not a matter of cisn, one possibily among others for the mature dividual.
"Consiratns Regardg Proposals to Give Legal Regnn to Unns Between Homosexual Persons" (CDF): nnot promote any form of civil regnn of same-sex unns, formally or materially.
EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
Catholic sistence: one n uphold the digny of homosexual people while not upholdg their right-to-marry; no unjt discrimatn towards homosexuals is acceptable; they mt be treated wh rpect, and their rights fend.
BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
The Supreme Court lg earlier this year legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi has ntued to raise qutns about how the cisn will affect relig groups – pecially those that rema opposed to allowg gay and lbian upl to wed.
WHY HAVE SO MANY CHRISTIANS AND CHURCH BEE PRO-GAY?
) (not to be nfed wh the Prbyterian Church Ameri, which oppos same-sex marriage) and the Epispal Church have wrtled wh the issue for years, often as part of a larger bate on the role of gays and lbians the church. Schaefer’s se has spl the church, wh some clergy floutg the l and marryg same-sex upl and other, more nservative members threateng to leave if the church do not hold to s current l prohibg gay marriage. Overall, a solid majory of whe male Prottants (62%) now favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, wh jt 33% opposed, acrdg to a 2015 Pew Rearch Center survey.